Health Safety Environment Manager

Refresco; Nelson; On-site; NZD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus and pay reviews

Enhanced pension contribution

Early Friday finish

28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Leave purchase option to 31 days

Life assurance

Private medical cover

Eye-care vouchers

Employee referral bonuses

GroceryAid support

Cheers discounts and wellbeing tools

Free onsite parking

Job summary

Refresco is seeking a hands-on HSE Manager to drive safety culture at the Nelson site. You will turn strategy into action on the factory floor, leading the HSE improvement agenda and ensuring compliance across operations.

You will liaise with regulators such as the Environment Agency, partner with leadership and operations, and lead incident investigations, audits, and risk assessments to deliver measurable safety outcomes.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent) required.
• Minimum five years' experience in an HSE role in manufacturing/engineering.
• Proven ability to drive safety improvements and empower teams.

Responsibilities

• Support and improve site HSE systems and compliance.
• Provide practical HSE guidance to managers and staff.
• Promote proactive safety culture via audits and risk assessments.
• Lead incident investigations and continuous improvement activities.
• Manage HSE reporting, KPIs, audits, and emergency preparedness.
• Collaborate with HR to meet environmental and occupational health objectives.

Skills

HSE management

Audits

Risk assessments

Incident investigations

Stakeholder liaison

Education

NEBOSH Diploma

Job description

This is a fantastic opportunity for a hands-on HSE Manager who enjoys turning strategy into results. The HSE roadmap is already in place – Refresco needs someone who can get out onto the factory floor, work alongside operational teams, influence behaviours, and drive a strong safety culture across the Nelson site. You'll lead the site's HSE improvement agenda, ensuring compliance, strengthening management systems, engaging with regulators including the Environment Agency, and partnering with both the leadership and operations teams to deliver measurable improvements.

Health, Safety and Environmental Manager

Nelson

Monday – Friday 38 hours

Reward & Benefits

• Annual bonus and regular pay reviews
• An enhanced company pension contribution
• Early Friday finish to kick‑start your weekend
• 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Option to purchase additional leave, increasing your allowance to 31 days plus bank holidays
• Life assurance coverage
• Personal healthcare cover, including 24/7 virtual GP access for your family
• Free eye‑care vouchers and discounted glasses
• Employee referral scheme with bonuses for successful referrals
• GroceryAid support services offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical guidance
• Cheers benefits platform providing discounts, free perks, and wellbeing tools
• Free onsite parking and discounted products

About the Role:

The HSE Managerwill provide full support to the operations team to ensureleadership and management of the safety programme with the utlimate aim of delivering the UK’s HSE improvement agenda. To drive a consistent approach across all HSE activities on the Refresco site. Driving forward the HSE management systems by influencing the management team, whilst working with the operations team to ensure compliance. To liaise with other HSE Expert teams and the Head of Health, Safety and Enviroment for the UK to ensure consistency and best practise between sites. You will be required to compile complaince reports and laise with regulators such as the Enviromental Agency

As the HSE Manager here are your key areas of focus:

• Support and improve site Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) systems and compliance.
• Provide practical HSE guidance and support to managers and employees.
• Promote a proactive safety culture through audits, risk assessments and safety initiatives.
• Lead incident investigations and support continuous improvement activities.
• Manage HSE reporting, KPIs, audits, emergency preparedness and PPE compliance.
• Work with site teams and HR to support environmental and occupational health objectives

We’re looking for:

The ideal candidate will have a NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent), a minimum of five years' experience in an HSE Officer or similar role within a busy manufacturing or engineering environment, and a proven track record of empowering others to achieve excellent HSE performance through the design and implementation of effective safety initiatives across both blue- and white-collar workforce

Ultimately, we encourage everyone to role model our core values of agility, responsibility, passion, excellence, and entrepreneurship as we believe these are what has made Refresco successful so far.

Find out more about the Refresco Values here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values

If you fit this profile and are excited by this opportunity, we would be delighted to hear from you!

About Refresco:

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia.

Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass.

Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand

Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. www.refresco.com.

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.

We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.

Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.